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Center for Hellenic Studies Fall 2012 About the Program Upcoming Events The Center for Hellenic Economic Crisis: Studies at Georgia State is Greece and the EU at the Crossroads the only such program in Lecture by Vassilios Galoussis, the southeast and is Greek Consul of Atlanta unique for the wide range Thursday, October 11, 1:00 - 2:30 PM of events it wishes to Troy Moore Library, 939 General Classroom sponsor. We imagine the Building, 38 Peachtree Center Avenue SE Greek phenomenon in the very broadest terms, both historically and geographically. Mining for Friendship on the Beach: Even in antiquity, cities on the Greek mainland Kazantzakis and the Loss of Intimacy colonized seaside regions as far to the east as the Lecture by Gregory Jusdanis, coast of the Black Sea, as far to the south as Egypt, Director of Modern Greek Studies, Ohio State Libya and Tunisia, and as far west as the Cote University d’Azur and southern Spain. The Italian peninsula, Friday, November 2, 4:00 - 6:00 PM from Naples all the way to Sicily, was simply known Troy Moore Library, 939 General Classroom as “Greater Greece” (Megali Ellada), so numerous Building, 38 Peachtree Center Avenue SE and so wealthy were the Greek colonies there. Why do we distrust friendship? Why do we consider As in antiquity, so too in the modern period. It is it a luxury in our lives, turning to it only when we worth recalling that Melbourne and Sydney in have the time? This lecture examines the paradoxes Australia, New York and Chicago in the US, Toronto of modern friendship by looking at Zorba the Greek in Canada, as well as London and Manchester in the by Nikos Kazantzakis. United Kingdom are cities with some of the largest Greek populations after Athens and Thessaloniki and Patras on the Greek mainland. The Past and Present in Greece Lecture by Gregory Jusdanis, Clearly, a thriving and dynamic Greek diaspora has Directory of Modern Greek Studies, Ohio State always been one of the prominent features of the University Hellenic world. We at the Center for Hellenic Studies Saturday, November 3, 5:00 - 7:00 PM are indebted to the generosity of the Atlanta chapter Goethe Zentrum, Colony Square, 1197 Peachtree of that diaspora, the American Foundation for Street NE Hellenic Studies, and of the Greek government, for the generous gifts that made the establishment of Greeks have either idealized the past, keeping at a this Institute possible. It is the financial and cultural distance and copying it or incorporating it into the commitment of such local communities, as well as present, literally using broken columns from antiquity the support of the Greek Consulate here in Atlanta, to build new structures. This lecture will examine this that enable! programs such as ours to prosper and to double view of the past while also pointing to similar expand the reach of our cultural and academic phenomena in Colombia and Peru. mission. about the director Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. is the inaugural holder of the William M. Suttles Chair in Religious Studies at Georgia State University. He joined the faculty in the fall of 2005. Ruprecht received his Bachelors and Masters degrees from Duke University and his PhD from the Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University, where he specialized in Religious and Philosophical Ethics, with a concentration in ancient Greek materials. Ruprecht was a Residential Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens in 1989-1990, thanks to the support of a Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship administered by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. He also worked for five summers on the Greco-American excavation of a Hellenistic pirate harbor at Phalasarna, Crete (1988-1992). He was later invited to offer short seminars and lecture courses at the Ionian University on Corfu in 2002 and 2003. Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. Ruprecht has long been involved with other Hellenic Studies institutions in the United States. He was Director, Center for Hellenic Studies invited to participate in the University of Michigan’s Annual Platsis Seminar under the auspices of their Professor, Department of Modern Greek Studies program in the fall of 2004. He was a Stanley J. Seeger Residential Fellow at Religious Studies Princeton University’s Program in Hellenic Studies in the fall of 2010 and he delivered the 24th Annual [email protected] Anna and Thomas Leontis Memorial Lecture for the Ohio State University’s Modern Greek Studies Program on March 29, 2012. He was most recently invited to offer a mini-seminar on the History of the Greek Olympics at the Portland State University under the auspices of their Department of History and Program in Hellenic Studies. He also offered two public lectures for Portland’s Hellenic Studies program in late July. Ruprecht became the Director of Georgia State University’s Center for Hellenic Studies in July of 2012. Executive Committee Forthcoming Events in spring 2013 Nickitas Demos February: Acclaimed composer Yannis Spanos performs in Atlanta as part of his North Professor of Composition, School " American Tour of Music February 17: Annual Director’s Lecture at The Greek Cathedral of the Annunciation [email protected] March: Panel discussion of late 19th/early 20th centurypoet Constantine Cavafy in honor Kathryn Kozaitis of the UNESCO Year of Cavafy Associate Professor, April: “Jews and Greeks in Antiquity,” lecture by Dr. John Gager of Princeton University’s Department of Anthropology Department of Religion [email protected] May 5: Greek Orthodox Easter Faidra Papavasiliou Lecturer, Details will be updated on GSU’s Center for Hellenic Studies website, Department of Anthropology http://www.cas.gsu.edu/hellenic_center/ [email protected] Gerard Pendrick Lecturer, Affiliated programs Department of Modern & Classical Languages University of Michigan American School of Classic Aristotle University [email protected] Modern Greek Program Studies Thessaloniki, Greece http://www.lsa.umich.edu/ Athens, Greece http://www.auth.gr/ Lela Urquhart modgreek http://www.ascsa.edu.gr Assistant Professor, Ionian University Department of History Ohio State University American Academy in Rome Corfu, Greece [email protected] Modern Greek Program School of Classical Studies http://www.ionio.gr/central/en http://classics.osu.edu/modern- http://www.aarome.org/about/ Sarah Levine greek-program school-classical-studies Program Assistant [email protected] Princeton University Hellenic Institute for Byzantine Seeger Center for Hellenic and Post-Byzantine Studies Studies Venice, Italy http://www.princeton.edu/ http://www.istitutoellenico.org/ hellenic/ Hellenic Foundation for Culture Portland State University Odessa, Ukraine Hellenic Studies Program http://www.hfcodessa.org/eng/ http://www.pdx.edu/hellenic- !studies/ American Foundation Maymester 2013 Study Abroad for Hellenic Studies Chair Donors “Sites, Saints and sanctuaries of Greece” Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hellenic GSU’s Center for Hellenic Studies, in conjunction with the Department of Republic Metropolitan Alexios of Atlanta Religious Studies, is proud to announce plans for a Maymester study abroad trip Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Atlanta to Greece. Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral Holy Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church This study abroad opportunity is focused primarily on the religious geography of AHEPA Mother Lodge, Chapter #1 Classical Greek antiquity, with site visits to all of the most important Panhellenic Educational Foundation Charles & Catherine Alexander Family sites-- such as the Athenian Akropolis, the Aphaia Temple on the island of Ms. Patricia Alexander Aegina, as well as the sanctuaries at Eleusis, Olympia, and Delphi. We will also Rev. and Mrs. George Alexson devote attention to that critical historical axis that separates pre-Christian Arcadian Society of Atlanta Atlanta Bread Company antiquity from its later Christian transformations. What is perhaps most striking Mr. & Mrs. Kostas Atmatzidis about this period of seismic cultural transition is the way in which, viewed from Theodora J. Campbell one perspective, very little of the practices and practicalities of daily life were Ronald & Vicki Canakaris Mrs. Eula Carlos changed. Newly Christianized Greeks and Romans continued to dress, to eat, Mr. Chris G. Carlos and to marry much as they had always done. Attention to transitional and later John & Elaine Carlos and Family Mr. & Mrs. Michael C. Carlos Orthodox Christian materials will thus be a significant aspect of this trip, Mr. & Mrs. John Contis especially at the monasteries of Meteora and the island of Corfu. Panos & Michelle Constantinides Themis Poulos Cramer Sam Elias & Family The trip counts toward 4 credit hours. Mr. & Mrs. Leo Frangis Demosthenes & Eva Galaktiades Constantine C. Georgakopoulos Tentative itinerary Mrs. Christine Goumenis Days 1-7: Athens, one day trip to the island Mr. & Mrs. Bobby Haralabakis • Hellenic Lions Club of Atlanta, of Aegina care of Dr. George Kleris • Day 8: Bus trip to Eleusis, Nauplion, and Hellenic Women’s Cultural Association Mr. & Mrs. I. Panos Karatassos Olympia Dr. S. Peter and Agnes Malakate Kezios • Day 9: Olympia, archaeological site and Dr. George & Metaxia Kleris three museums Mr. Kleomenis Kliossis Mr. Chris Kliros • Day 10: Sanctuary of Delphi and the Mr. Alex Kliros Monasteries of Meteora Constantine & Noula Kokenes and Family Fr. Petros & Presbytera Christina • Day 11: Travel to Igoumenitsa and Corfu Kopsahilis • Days 12-17: Corfu Dr. Kathryn A. Kozaitis, In Memory of Athanasios & Crystalo Kozaitis Mrs. Vicky Kouloumberis Visit http://www.studyabroad.gsu.edu/ for more information and updates. Dr. Marion Leathers Kuntz Laconian Society of Atlanta Dr. Anna V. Lambros Anastasios N. Lambrou Family George & Ioanna Lambrou Zesto, Inc. Dr. Archie & Florence Lytle Mrs. Paula Marchman Lekas George & Tori Matthews Family Dr. Kyriakos & Mrs. Margaret Michaelides Mr. & Mrs. Speros Millas Katy Olympiadis Aris & Mary Panos and Family Constantine G. and Athanasia M. Patronis John G., Vicky C. & Mary Katherine Patronis Dr. George Patterson Mr. Solon Patterson Arthur & Peter Phrydas Dr. Victor G. Polizos Morris & Polyxeni Potter Dr. George Skardasis Moonrise over Venetian Mr.